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2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/11/24 [Course title]
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HUN 1201 Nutrition Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers | 100% Pass
What is Nutrition? - Answer✔️✔️-Nutrition is the science that studies food, telling how
food nourishes the body and influences health.
Why is Nutrition Important? - Answer✔️✔️-Nutrition is important because proper nutrition
supports wellness and poor nutrition causes deficiency diseases.
Critical Components of wellness - Answer✔️✔️-nutrition and and physical activity.
5 different types of health - Answer✔️✔️-occupational, physical, mental, spiritual, and
emotional
Goals of healthy people 2020 - Answer✔️✔️-1. Help attain higher quality and longer lives
by prevention
2. improve health for all
3. social and physical environments that promote health
4. promote quality of life, development, and behaviors
Nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-chemicals in food for growth and function
Organic Nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-contain carbon ie. carbs, lipids, proteins, and vitamins
inorganic nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-No carbon such as minerals and water
Macronutrients - Answer✔️✔️-Provide energy and required in large amounts
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micronutrients - Answer✔️✔️-facilitate the release of energy, assist in regulating body
processes, and required in smaller amounts
DRI: Dietary Reference Intakes - Answer✔️✔️-Dietary Standards for healthy people. How
much do they need to remain healthy people?
EAR: Estimated Average Requirement - Answer✔️✔️-Supports a function for half of the
healthy population-Defines RDA
RDA: Recommended Dietary Allowances - Answer✔️✔️-Daily amount of a nutrient
needed to meet the needs of 98% of healthy people
AI: Adequate Intakes - Answer✔️✔️-Avg daily amount of a nutrient that healthy people
consume
UL: Upper Intake Level - Answer✔️✔️-Max daily amount of a nutrient that appears safe
for most healthy people
EER: Estimated Energy Requirement - Answer✔️✔️-average daily intake to maintain
energy balance and good health
AMDR: Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range - Answer✔️✔️-Range of intakes for
energy nutrients that provide adequate energy
Anthropometric Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Height, body weight, head circumference in
infants, and limb circumference. Asses trends in nutritional status/growth
Primary Deficiency - Answer✔️✔️-direct consequence of inadequate intake of nutrients,
secondary deficieny - Answer✔️✔️-cannot absorb enough of a nutrient, too much is
excreted, not utilized efficiently, etc.
Epidemiological Studies - Answer✔️✔️-observational studies
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2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/11/24 [Course title]
, ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM
HUN 1201 Nutrition Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers | 100% Pass
What is Nutrition? - Answer✔️✔️-Nutrition is the science that studies food, telling how
food nourishes the body and influences health.
Why is Nutrition Important? - Answer✔️✔️-Nutrition is important because proper nutrition
supports wellness and poor nutrition causes deficiency diseases.
Critical Components of wellness - Answer✔️✔️-nutrition and and physical activity.
5 different types of health - Answer✔️✔️-occupational, physical, mental, spiritual, and
emotional
Goals of healthy people 2020 - Answer✔️✔️-1. Help attain higher quality and longer lives
by prevention
2. improve health for all
3. social and physical environments that promote health
4. promote quality of life, development, and behaviors
Nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-chemicals in food for growth and function
Organic Nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-contain carbon ie. carbs, lipids, proteins, and vitamins
inorganic nutrients - Answer✔️✔️-No carbon such as minerals and water
Macronutrients - Answer✔️✔️-Provide energy and required in large amounts
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micronutrients - Answer✔️✔️-facilitate the release of energy, assist in regulating body
processes, and required in smaller amounts
DRI: Dietary Reference Intakes - Answer✔️✔️-Dietary Standards for healthy people. How
much do they need to remain healthy people?
EAR: Estimated Average Requirement - Answer✔️✔️-Supports a function for half of the
healthy population-Defines RDA
RDA: Recommended Dietary Allowances - Answer✔️✔️-Daily amount of a nutrient
needed to meet the needs of 98% of healthy people
AI: Adequate Intakes - Answer✔️✔️-Avg daily amount of a nutrient that healthy people
consume
UL: Upper Intake Level - Answer✔️✔️-Max daily amount of a nutrient that appears safe
for most healthy people
EER: Estimated Energy Requirement - Answer✔️✔️-average daily intake to maintain
energy balance and good health
AMDR: Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range - Answer✔️✔️-Range of intakes for
energy nutrients that provide adequate energy
Anthropometric Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Height, body weight, head circumference in
infants, and limb circumference. Asses trends in nutritional status/growth
Primary Deficiency - Answer✔️✔️-direct consequence of inadequate intake of nutrients,
secondary deficieny - Answer✔️✔️-cannot absorb enough of a nutrient, too much is
excreted, not utilized efficiently, etc.
Epidemiological Studies - Answer✔️✔️-observational studies
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